To Russia, With Love: The Trump administration announced new sanctions on Russia in retaliation for the nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter in England. Former agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter nearly died in …

Red Flag Warnings: In a harbinger for what may come in November, a Trump-backed candidate for Congress in Ohio’s traditionally Republican 12thth district appears to have barely squeaked by. Officially the race between Troy Balderson and Democrat Danny O’Connor is …

Den of Thieves: Paul Manafort’s former business partner Rick Gates testified yesterday in federal court that the two men engaged in a seven-year conspiracy in which Gates helped file false tax returns, hid multiple foreign bank accounts, and gave phony …

The Trumpster Fire: President Trump admitted that the 2016 meeting in Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer was about getting dirt on Hillary Clinton, but he claims he didn’t know anything about it at the time. He tweeted yesterday, “Fake …

Guns and the Girl: The National Rifle association, which gave $21 million to the Trump presidential campaign, claims it’s going broke because of restrictions placed on its business partners by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The NRA claims it has …

Shutdown Shoutdown: President Trump yesterday repeated his threat to shut down the government if Congress doesn’t give him tighter border security and pay for his promised wall. “If we don’t get border security after many, many years of talk within …

Up Against the Wall: President Trump yesterday threatened to shut down the government if Congress doesn’t give him the money to build his border wall. Trump wrote on Twitter, “I would be willing to “shut down” government if the Democrats …

Equal Opportunity: CBS says it will investigate claims of sexual misconduct against its CEO, Les Moonves. The company made the announcement shortly in advance of the publication of a Ronan Farrow story in The New Yorker  in which six women …

Unfriended: Facebook stock lost $120 billion in value yesterday on fears about privacy protection and a disappointing earnings report. It’s the biggest value loss for a company in market history. Privacy invasion is Facebook’s number one product, so why the …

Recorded for Your Protection: The audiotape of one conversation between candidate Donald Trump and his lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen has been released and it sounds like Joey Meatballs talking business with Vinnie the Chin. They’re discussing a $150,000 deal to keep …